Life Span

Hi,

I work as a statistican myself so I've done a bit of research on this.

The reduction in longevity due to having UC is very small - a few months. So for the average person having UC only slightly reduces your lifespan.

The new drugs like Imuran and Remi etc have not been on the market long enough to analyse accurately their effect on longevity. If anyone tells you otherwise it's simply wrong.

However the FDA will do extensive research and projections on all drugs and make assumptions about how they think the drug will effect your mortality. It would be very rare for them to give apporval to a drug that they thought would reduce lifepsan by more than 12 months. Of course the assumptions that they make could be wrong.

Mike...have you tried any rectal meds?

Maybe something to consider before the big-guns.

Regarding life-span....some of us do get UC-related liver disease which is fatal, but not terminal (interesting perspective). A liver transplant buys time when the patient's liver cannot sustain life..., but interestingly, the new liver will also get the UC-related disease eventually....so, I would think that cuts down on life-span if it's active.

I believe the goal to keep everything nice and quiet helps.

quincy